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Category : Bath County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bath County, Kentucky Marriages 1811-1850 Alphabetical by Grooms, Alphabetical by Brides, Wills 1811-1825, Deaths 1852-1859
Author: The Genealogical Helper
Author: The Travels of Dean Mahomet
Author: Dean MahometPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
History of Scott County, Virginia
Author: Robert M. AddingtonPublisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9780932807670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Brimming with information, this text begins with Scott County territory as claimed by the French prior to 1763. The final chapters include interesting facts and figures from a survey made in 1930. Filling the pages between with great variety, Addington shares an abundance of knowledge.
Lewis of Warner Hall
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806308319
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
"According to tradition the Lewis family of 'Warner Hall' is descended from the emigrant Robert Lewis, who came [from England] to Virginia in 1635." Descendants lived throughout the United States.
Album of Genealogy and Biography, Cook County, Illinois
Author: Lynch Families of the Southern States
Author: Lois Davidson HinesPublisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Lost Arcadia
Author: Walter A. ClarkPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329615824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
There are many books of many kinds and this volume properly classified would probably belong to the "sui generis," "sic trasit gloria mundi" variety. If the reader has grown a little rusty on classic Latin I do not mind saying to him further that the latter phrase has been sometimes translated, "My glorious old aunt has been sick ever since Monday," but I do not think that this revised version has been generally accepted as strictly orthodox. This book cannot be said to have been written without rhyme or reason for its pages hold more rhyme than poetry and three reasons at least, have conspired to give it literary existence. A hundred years and more from now it may be that some far descendant of the author, while fingering the musty shelves of some old library, may find some modest satisfaction in the thought that his ancient sire had "writ" a book.
Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. CurranPublisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated
Author: Henry LewisPublisher: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description